YouTube channel Hardware Busters claims it purchased what looked like an AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPU ... the supposedly ...

There have been reports of people buying AMD's Ryzen 7 9800X3D on Amazon only to find it was a fake with a sticker on top. The fake was shrink-wrapped in a box, making it look like it was brand new.

A processor sold as the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D arrived in a sealed box that looked completely legitimate. However, when it was unwrapped, it was clear that something was off. Instead of the modern ...

A hardware reviewer just bought an AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPU on Amazon only ... The text on the heatspreader turned out to be a sticker. When the sticker was peeled off, the CPU turned out to ...

Well-known hardware reviewers aren't immune to tech retail fakers, and to demonstrate this, Hardware Busters has shared images of a counterfeit AMD Ryzen 7 ... the amazing IHS sticker peel image ...

One, it wasn't the correct socket and heatspreader design for an AM5 chip, and two, an eagle-eyed viewer noticed that the supposedly silkscreened logo on top appeared to be a sticker.